President Joe Biden in a highly anticipated voting rights speech on Tuesday afternoon attacked his predecessor Donald Trump’s continued denial of the 2020 election results. Without naming Trump, Biden pointed to 45th president fighting the outcome as an example of a broad ‘assault on fair and free elections’.
Speaking from Philadelphia, Biden, a Democrat, said the 2020 election was the ‘most examined’ and scrutinized in American history.
‘The big lie’, Biden said, referring to what Trump called the 2020 results, ‘is just that – a big lie’.
Biden then reference more specific behavior Trump has displayed since more than 150million Americans voted in the November election.
‘In America, if you lose, you accept the results, you follow the Constitution,’ Biden said. ‘You don’t call facts fake and try to bring down the American experiment just because you’re unhappy.’
Biden continued: ‘That’s not statesmanship. That’s not statesmanship – that’s selfishness. That’s not democracy – it’s denial of the right to vote.’
Biden’s speech came as GOP-controlled legislatures have pushed forward with state laws placing limits on voting.
Meanwhile in Texas, House Democrats left the state and traveled to Washington, DC, on Monday in an effort to block Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting law.
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